"Don't call it Twixtmas. With new year approaching, now is the time for silence"

In BBC4’s All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride, ‘almost nothing happened, mesmerically’. Photograph: BBC/The Garden Productions Sunday 27 December 2015 08.04 EST Last modified on Sunday 27 December 2015 08.06 EST The most subversive thing is silence. In this odd interregnum, in the days caught between Christmas and new year, the world suddenly falls quiet.